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Paul McCartney writes one of the songs, "Giddy", and it sounds like your run-of-the-high-school Wings production, but only Daltrey's voice can survive the vocal obstacles which McCartney constructed for his own cherubic tones...
These tactics have paid off handsomely this year in special congressional elections. In three out of four races, Republicans have won upset victories over their Democratic opponents. In each case, the winner was helped by vocal and skillful conservative support...
While the Israeli faction headed by spokesmen such as Shahak and Langer remains very visible and vocal, it is still a tiny minority. Shahak said he expects the group's impact to remain at its present low level for the next several years. He estimates that the active membership of his own group is no more than a few hundred, although many more would rally to his cause, Shahak adds, if matters really came to a head--in the event of another war, for example. He characterizes the current mood in Israel as one of apathy that...
...take a stand but trying to find a middle way, Jimmy Carter has rejected quotas. Blacks, who voted for him overwhelmingly, wanted him to back the university's position that some places can be set aside for less qualified, minority students. Opponents of quotas have also been vocal: businessmen, labor unions and universities, moderate and conservative whites, and some minorities, like Jews, who feel they can only lose in a quota system...
...FUEL costs rise and community opposition becomes ever more vocal, the value of Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy project seems more and more questionable. Because of design problems that led Harvard to fire the engineering firm it had originally hired to design and construct the plant, construction is more than a year behind schedule, and the new firm's redesign of the plant entailed a doubling of the projected construction cost. It now appears that even that new estimate...